Improved washing-machine



-inafter described.

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Letters Patent No. 107 ,390, dated September 1 3, 1870.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

The Schedule referred 'co in these Letters Patent and making part ol' the same.

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Similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts.

Myimprovenient relates to washing-machines, or apparatus designed to be 4clamped to the sidefot .a tub, and having roller rubbers carried by a box-part or frame, which is in pivoted connection with a, slottedv device, made capable of rocking and sliding upon the holder, to allowof the rubbers being worked up and down,.and to and fro, for operation ou the clothes, in connection with a wash-board, or otherwise, by means oi' a handle arranged to extend across the rubber-box 4 or frame.

.The invention consists in a simplified and-improved construction of suc-h apparatus, substantially as here- Iu the accompanying drawing- 4A represents a single bar-holder, designed to be clamped by'a set-screw below to the side of the tub, and slotted, as at a, for play of a single and slotted lrubber-carrying bar, B, through it, and swing or rocking play of the latteron a pivot ortie-pin, l), arranged to connect cheek-guides c c to the bar B, formed on the upper slotted end of the holder. l

'lhe slotted bar B is connected at its lower endV with a yoke orY saddle, 0, of a width and size corresponding to the rubber box or frame D, which is in pivoted connection with the yoke,

This single-bar construction of the holder A and slotted piece orbar B is not only much'sirnpler and cheaper than a frame or double-bar construction of such parts;` but, by reason of the lightness of the moving bar, reduces labor in working the machine, and the single bar B does not present the same ohstruction asa frame, while, by the'constructiou shown, it is equally as well guided, and, in connection with the yoke O, gives a perfectlyvsteady hold ot' the rub- :ber-box or ii'aine'D.

' This rubber-box or frame 1 ),Icas`t all in one piece,

instead of making it in parts, as heretofore, to form a soeketcd connection of the operatingfbar or handle E, which, in this case, is simply slipped to its place-l Vbetween the ends of the yoke C, so that, on the latter being slid in between the sides or cheekstl d of the rubber-box D, screws e c, passed through the' cheeks d (l, and ends Aof' the yoke G, into the handle E, serve tov form the necessary connection o fthebox D, the yoke G, and the handle E, with all necessary 'rovision for la or swinr of the arts-orithe screws C e c as p iifots. yThis forms a cheap, simple, and etlicient construction and connection otthe parts.

The frame or box D maybe of waved or corrugated character, and libs arranged withiuit, turning on end pivots or screws ff, the roller-rubbers E F, that are of square form in their transverse section, as I nd .that rubbers of such shape, in changing from au angular to a Hat contact with the clothes, have a better W'hat is here claimed, and desired to be seeuredby Letters Patent, is- 4 i The combination of the single-bar holder A, the single and slotted bar B, arranged to'slide and swing on a cross-pin, 11, within a slot,'a, and between cheeks v` pounding and rubbing action.

cc, formed on the holder A, and the yoke C, with the rubber frame D, substantially as shown and described.

n REUBEN LIGHTHALL..

vWitnesses FRED. Haynes, M. J. SHANLY. 

